This is either the result of bored prosecutors or outright corruption. Either way, these prosecutors need to find a new line of work. They are using US taxpaye

This is either the result of bored prosecutors or outright corruption. Either way, these prosecutors need to find a new line of work. They are using US taxpayer resources to protect price discrepancies for foreign auto manufacturers in foreign countries. I have seen rather transparent attempts to use our laws to enforce the will of large corporations before (SOPA etc) but this seems to take it to new extremes. Car manufacturers cannot impose restrictions on what we do with cars once we own them. We purchase them - there is no car license agreement. It is not fraud to buy a car and then choose to sell it a few days later, and we have no legal obligation to tell the dealer what we plan to do with the car. I cannot imagine that the government would actually prevail at trial on any of these cases. They may get a few intimidation-based guilty pleas, but I don't see these cases having a ton of legal merit.